The Arsenal at Danzig

I-20 Gallery, New York

and Other Views by New York artist Timothy Hutchings. Combining video and digital animation, Hutchings has reanimated these buildings while allowing small errors of motion to remain - a clue for viewers that the apparent charm of these lost buildings is not exactly what it seems. This video on DVD - which the artist began in early 2001 - depicts what at first glance appears to be a tourist film of 1930s Eastern Europe, with an unremarkable figure who walks among buildings and occasionally waves to the camera.

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I-20 is pleased to open a benefit exhibition, "I Love New York," in conjunction with over 130 galleries in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The proceeds of the one-week show, which opens on October 26, will go to The Robin Hood Relief Fund, a New York organization providing food, shelter and health care for victims and service workers involved in the September 11th tragedy. (For information about all of the exhibits in New York, please visit the website for the benefit, www.IloveNYartbenefit.org.)

I-20 will also donate $1000 from each sale of Spencer Tunick's Brooklyn, 1999, to benefit The Twin Towers Fund, a charity set up for survivors of policeman, fireman and other uniformed workers who perished on September 11th. This is a special small-format edition of 10 adapted from a New York performance.

Following the benefit, I-20 will open with the second show of the season, The Arsenal at Danzig and Other Views by New York artist Timothy Hutchings. This video on DVD - which the artist began in early 2001 - depicts what at first glance appears to be a tourist film of 1930s Eastern Europe, with an unremarkable figure who walks among buildings and occasionally waves to the camera. In fact, the buildings are all landmarks that were destroyed in the world wars, and the animated sequences are based on period photographs. The man in period dress is the artist, who has inserted himself into these scenes like a time traveler. Combining video and digital animation, Hutchings has reanimated these buildings while allowing small errors of motion to remain - a clue for viewers that the apparent charm of these lost buildings is not exactly what it seems.

The second gallery holds 'Smialy' Forward Artillary Car, the artist's wood and cardboard sculpture of an armored train that traveled under several flags in both world wars. The train has been stripped of all its utilitarian signifiers - doors, rivets, ladders and guns - and has been reduced to an abstract model indicating nothing more than form and volume. Opposite to the video, which shows how landmarks are destroyed by war, the sculpture illustrates how warfare is transformed into a purist esthetic landmark.

Timothy Hutchings group exhibitions include Greater New York and Some Young New Yorkers, Part 2, at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Parking produced by MayDayProductions; Keep Fit, Be Happy at DeChiara Stewart; and Dissin' the Real at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna. Hutchings was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received a Skowhegan Fellowship. He received his MFA at the Yale University School of the Arts. The Arsenal at Danzig and Other Views is his first solo show in New York.

Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6
OPENING: Saturday, November 3, 6-8PM

For further information or visuals, please contact I-20 at (212) 645-1100; fax (212) 645-0198

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